Bad Mama--almost a month and no posts!

my most recent art (in the bathtub)
(warm'n up the vocal chords with a little jingle bells)
(i love to walk daisy)
(i can play without even looking)

rock star
i love jack too.
Mama says sorry yall that she has been sick, busy and negligent of the blog. A nasty virus hit our house and I was sick and then mama was sick, and still is a little bit...like 10 days later! But we are all on the mend and spring is here and that means lots of time playing in the alley. Today we took a wagon ride and walked my dogs to the mailboxes. That's right, daisy is now good enough to walk all the way to the mailboxes and back (but not much further). I tell her all the time she is a good girl and that I love her. I have also learned to tell her "no bark." I am talking up a storm. Mama picked me up from daycare the other day and (at 22 months) I said, "What did you do today, Jen" clear as day. I know his mama's name is Jen and papa's name is Tom and when prodded, and asked what my name is, I always first reply "big boy" and then with big pride I say "Ellis Hayes." And I am a big boy. Tonight after dinner I was contemplating life and coloring when I looked at mama and said, gotta poop...so we ran up to the potty and I did it, I took a gigantic human poop on the pot. Mama loved on me for an hour over it. After this weekend, I should be fully potty-trained, only in underpants, all the time, even at night. I love to talk about my friends and what I do, and about the bulldozers across the street and of course, how the "train went to the roundhouse to take a nap and when it wakes up it will carry freight to the next town" (yes, no joke). 22 months old folks, I am one smart articulate cookie. Life is good.

gymnastics is fun
i love jack
i love my new valentine book and sitting at my table

future rock star

I sleep good (sometimes) and I like to bowl and sled...and I had fun in Florida

at the aquarium


i am a hermit crab


my friend tucker
getting my sunblock on













A few weeks of past and lots has happened. I got to go to Florida to see my GramB and GrampC and Uncle mike and aunt amy and their dog Tucker. We got ther and it was very cold and rainy--but that did not stop us from having fun and going to the beach. Mama got food poisoning and GramB got a little sick, but we all still had fun. I fed squirrels, I saw dolphins and I built sand castles. Uncle Mike tried to corrupt me with finger pulling...I was a a rock start flyer, barely cried at all on the the way there and nto at all on the way back. It has been snowing for a while here, so we went sled riding and bowling today, it has been a great family day together. Daisy is doing better. After way too much money and quite a bit of pain for all of us, especially her, her surgery was a success and she is on the road to recovery. She started walking 5 minutes three times a day this week. Life is good. Love to everyone.

More pics of the snow, my bed and bowling to come very soon!

pics from papa's phone

my new floorside bed


i love to eat oatmeal
i love bracelets...I think my fave is one that either emma or gina left here at xmas, it is pink!
i practice almost every day
chillin with my pops
mama could not believe i knew how to use these
yum!
sleddin

we have a backlog of video and pics to post for you all...i now sing A,B,C,D, little star (only now did mama realize they were the same tune) and i say 1,2,5,7. I stay in my bed (thank god mama says). I am getting some new teeth, and they hurt and i am up a lot in the middle of the night...hope uncle mike and amy and gramb and grampc can sleep through it next week while i am in florida with them. daisy is spending another night in the hospital, as they can provide better care for her there than we can here, she ended up having to have both knees pretty much rebuilt, as all her ligaments were torn. it is going to be a long road to recovery for her. the sledding pics are from the day she tore her first acl...and by the way nana and granpops, i love my sled--thanks!. after the phone battery died that day my friends ben and max brought over their sleds and i went down the hill all by myself and then the 3 of us went down a bunch and crashed a few times and i cried, and i laughed and it was really fun!

big boy bed!!!

so i am in a big boy bed now. this past weekend after yet another attempt to escape and an absolute refusal to put on the sleeping bag, mama took the front off of my crib. the first night i was a rock star, i did not even move. mama was up the whole night checking on me because she was worried i would fall out or get crazy. then the next day, i took a great nap in the bed. well, that was the end of it. the next night i fell out the first time (it is actually a pretty good drop off) and was still pretty much asleep, and then the second time i hit the couch cushion on the way down and rolled under the bed, where it was totally dark and blocked off on all sides and i kinda freaked out and so did mama and papa and at 5am that morning mama totally took my entire crib apart and now i am sleeping on a mattress on the floor. i love it, i am such a big boy. calib sleeps with me and all my monkeys sleep on the floor next to me. i have a pretty bad cold, which mama hopes goes away quick because we are going to florida in 2 weeks to see gramb, grampc and uncle mike and aunt amy. i am so excited. i love the beach! my dog daisy tore her 2nd back leg acl the other day and she is not feeling very good so i cannot pet her, which makes me sad. i think mama and papa are going to do a double knee surgery because we all think she has several good years left in her and cannot bear to see her go yet...we will know for sure tomorrow.

i love to sing now...i sing twinkle twinkle a LOT, and i also sing the song that says, have you ever seen a monkey a monkey (a lassie) go this way and that....i can really carry a tune.

mama promises to try to update more often. the problem is most of the video and pics we have taken lately are all on papa's iphone and mama cannot access those. so he promises to get them all uploaded so we can share them. everything from cheering for obama during the state of the union, to being crazy "happy baby" wild running around in my diaper.

lotsa love to everyone, and please send all of your love to my dogs. daisy has a lot to go through and jack is just totally acting out and feeling neglected.

its been a while

i know it has been a while but we have been very very busy, and mama has been slacking on taking pictures...especially after she saw how great the photo shoot pictures went. things have been a little hectic with daisy tearing her acl and jack almost dying from eating rasin bread...mama has spent a lot of time at the vet and i just cannot understand why i have to be seperate from the dogs right now. i am growing every day, in size, in willpower, and in absolute brilliance as mama puts it. . my 2 favorite books right now are Moonride and Jazzbaby, and I like to say mama i want to read moonride, and it kinda freaks her out.

I'm a Genius!

Ok, so mama is kinda freakin out about how smart I am. I now speak in complete sentences...some of the time. I say--I want nana to hold me and where did my papa go and mama, i want a snack. much of the time i just scream i want mommy or i want papa...i am going through a little separation anxiety. but here is why mama is super excited. the neighbors gve us a piano, a real one, a stand up. we moved it in last night and i went right to work figuring it out. i play with two hands, and i put on a concert for papa and grandpops last night, i played the piano and sung. i call it the "nano"....video to come! between that, my guitar and my drums, mama is thinking i might just be a rock star after all (but she of course, will let me choose my own path). i also now (a little late) have learned the song jingle bells...I say jingle bells, all the way...i like it because the song talks about horseys...i cannot decide if the horsey or the cow is my favorite animal....much love!